My cousin is having her second baby! Like the first, he was a surprise. Unlike the first, he is giving my cousin issues--I guess he moves around a lot, especially at night, so that she isn't getting much sleep. There was also a concern that he wasn't hitting growth milestones, and that he was several weeks behind. Complicating things, her ( Read more... )

It turns out we weren't the only family members with tales of bedding to share ( Read more... )

My cousin's wife is having their first child, and they had a baby shower yesterday. They now live in the Kankakee area, and she is from the village of Limestone, just west of Kankakee. (I believe they live east of Kankakee, but I've never been to their house.) It's so small of a town, and I believe it was incorporated in the past decade, that ( Read more... )

Day #4. Last one. I can do this ( Read more... )

I mentioned that a certain someone got married last month in Hawaii. I believe I mentioned that there was going to be a reception for the newly married couple a few weeks later. What I neglected to mention was that, soon, baby will make three. Granted, I may have been sworn to secrecy about the baby for what seemed like years, so to not mention ( Read more... )

Third in a series! It's been babypalooza this year ( Read more... )

I knew I'd forget to talk about something from last Saturday, but at least I focused on the shower itself in the first post ( Read more... )

This was probably the most anticipated event this week--something happy in the face of misery. Plus, how many baby showers have you attended where the parents pass out the birth announcements ( Read more... )

This would have been posted last week, but my internet was screwy. Also, yeah, no, not doing backdated posts. Oh well ( Read more... )

When I went to the baby shower recently, I came home with one of the table decorations, a vase with Epsom salt, a candle, and festive confetti in it. My mother took a liking to it and decided it went with her shabby chic decor. However, she decided she didn't like it with the confetti, only the white of the salt and the candle. She then set ( Read more... )